Live Thread: Cavs vs Timberwolves
2016-01-25G’Day! These fit as a Mallee bull Cavs fans traveled over 10,000 miles to be in Cleveland for Australia day at the Q, and ended up getting to meet their countryman, Matthew Dellavedova. You may think they’re as mad as a meat-axe, but let’s hope that kind of good karma pervades the arena tonight as the Cavaliers celebrate the holiday that started on January 26th, 1788. A couple of CtB commenters and even a staffer are in the arena bringing the #CavsGoodKarma, too. Hope the lads stone the crows for you, mates.
In other news, the Cavs are saying all the right things about their commitment to pushing the pace. As Joe Vardon reported for Cleveland.com, ‘Bron is fully committed to coach Lue’s vision of moving the Cavs out of 27th place in speed of play in the NBA. Hopefully, no one chunders.
This is what coach wants to do and this is what we’re going to do. This isn’t a LeBron thing. I’m talking out of IQ of the game, but this is what coach wants to do, so this is what we’re going to do.
So here’s to these these new look Cavs going off like a frog in a sock for the Aussies watching down under. I’m going to click “post” now so I can listen to the Wombat address the crowd. May your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny door down, Andrew Wiggins. In other words, Go Cavs.
LUE WANTS TO GET THAT 1ST WIN AND THEN ” MAYBE ” EXPAND THE ROTATION OR MAYBE HE DOESN’T TRUST THE END OF THE BENCH EITHER —–BUT IF YOU WANT TO PLAY FAST WHAT BETER PLAYER TO LET PLAY A FEW MINUTES THAN MDN
Agree, Nomad. Give the young gun some run!
Wow. Refs bailed Kyrie out. I loved Austin’s comment, “Wiggins didn’t get his head out of the way in time.”
Wiggins drained that right in Lebron’s grill
Rough night for Kyrie, glad the Cavs can absorb his comeback effort.
Yeah until he gets his shot back, it would be nice if he started focusing on a pass first style. Would reap huge benefits for us down the road.
Wiggins just showed LeBron the future.
Wow, Wiggins, holy cow.
WTF was JR doing there?
WTF was Kyrie doing?
Tom is going to get tired of logging these late-game letdowns.
Kyrie must be dating a Kardashian!
That was Delly’s fault, should’ve stayed between KAT and the basket.
LET’S GET A MIC ON HIM EVERY GAME
Can you imagine Wiggins on this team?
I guess Lue will expand the rotations next time /s
Still 2 minutes to go. Maybe Mo only wants 3-5 minutes
Delly 16 points on 11 shots. Kyrie 15 points on 18 shots.
TT has been key in this run finishing at the rim
Towns is already beastly. I think he could be better than A Davis at some point.
Sorry didn’t mean that to be a reply
DELLYYY!!!! , Towns is a STAR !
WOW DELLY What a Night!!!
Delly is so locked in tonight
Delly Trey!!!!!!
TT has gotten some huge o boards tonight.
Bad Wolves D or good Cavs O allowing TT to get open under the hoop so many times?
Tristan the garbage man!
Happy, Mike?
Yes more happy than before !!
Great pass by Love to TT!!!
Delly is the best screening point in the league right now.
SWEET………………………………………….
Curry is a pretty great screener too. GS runs a bunch of stuff with Curry as a screener.
I like how TT crouches down a second like that and goes up for the basket under the rim.
Great move, Thompson. Thought that possession was dead when LeBron dribbled to the corner.
HeyLebronJamesStopTakingSoManyBadShots.com
That is really funny!!!!!
Lots of Le-ISO!!!!!!!!
Uggh this looks familiar.
Game gets tight, LeBron goes with the Saint Weirdo 2.
Some things never change. Good Luck Lue on fixing that.
LeBron with some really bad possessions.
Delly back. To cheers.
Why isn’t Love getting the ball?
Cause last time he got it, he didn’t seal and it led to a turnover.
At 5/9 he deserves more shots.
All misses being 3s. Let’s see those elbows.
Lebron is taking over the offense
Also Love only has that one turnover. Too tough on him Nate
Yikes. Cavs completely dodged a bullet on that Wiggins three. He was WIDE open.
One pass to contested 3 is not good ball movement.
If this were a good team, Cavs would be losing by 10.
And right back to iso.
Should we have Lebron sit for a few mins?
TERRIBLE possession by LeBron.
Cavs spirit getting deflated like Tom Brady’s super bowl balls.
Cavs letting Wolves back in it.
We all know what Lue has to do.
Here we go…
Moz’s best catch all year.
Kyrie! Just make a normal layup on that one!
Oh Kyrie… So miss that magic touch
Has Kyrie ever dunked?
Yes.
I thought you were supposed to add an /s?
Cavs w 26 assists through basically 3 quarters and change. Thats a big # for the Cavs of late.
I don’t think the Cavs look better as a basketball team, but they certainly look more intense this game.
Helps that they are actually moving with purpose on offense instead of setting weak screens and rolling soft to the bucket, but their d hasn’t been great.
Is Delly our 3rd most important player right now?
Dumb foul by Moz!!!!
If the Cavs can maintain this kind of pace they will be really hard to defend. All i hope is that they don’t forget about the defensive end and for that is key that Lue keeps a 10 guys rotation.
Actually the less men in the rotation the better the D will be. Exclude Mo, JJ and RJ, and there’s no real weak spots.
RJ has been a decent defender this year.
I’m not sure they will be able to play with this kind of pace will a reduced rotation.
Weak spots on D: Kyrie and Love. And LeBron when he isn’t interested.
Lue has an even shorter bench than Blatt…. just saying… — Chris Parker
He’s seeing it is easier said than done.
Our bench is not deep. Wish people could see that.
This offense doesn’t look any different than before.
agreed. but they are getting into there sets way sooner
Only so much one can do. 26 assists with 9 minutes to go look different to you?
that offensive set before the timeout was just beautiful
Great ball movement. Would like to see Love go off a bit.
Needs to get the ball first.
Well not going to help if he turns it over like that tho.
Kyrie still feeling the energy from Delly/TT trio
Get RJ in there!
Why……………………………
Forgot the /s, such a valuable tool.
Very good sir. Thought that was an odd remark, lol.
Delly to Moz https://twitter.com/cavs/status/691799669794471936
Amazing! Thanks Arch
woke up my kids!
Set up nicely by Delly — and the Aussie fans go wild!
How are they doing this without their supposed genius coach??
I hope Lue accepts this as his first win and doesn’t pretend he’s not a rookie coach like someone else did.
Cols you’re ruining Australia night. Israeli night is tomorrow.
He’s adding more offensive plays. Defensive schemes needs work
Ummm they should beat Minnesota with no coaches.
I thinks Shump’s defensive reputation is the exact opposite of JR Smith’s
Yeah. Totally fouled Wiggins on that last one.
Can you elaborate more? I might have missed something
Officials look at all of Shump’s strips as clean plays (which I love). If JR does the same exact thing they have to take an official timeout to see if it’s a flagrant 2.
Did love take a shot tdon’t like the fact love only got 3 shots this quarter. Seemed to get away from running stuff through and for him.
I had to hold my mouth before I wake up my family, damn on that Mozgov dunk
I didn’t haave that much control.
I swear Kyrie plays better w/o Lebron on the floor. He feels more free!
Good point. He should run the 2nd unit until fully healthy.
Blatt had him do that last year and it always (for the most part) fun to watch!
EG vine that Moz dunk
Late… but here you go…
MFQ is getting ready!!!!
Hopefully some MDN too.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THAT DUNK BY MOZZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG! That’s a play of the year.
Moz with some happy feet after that jam
Mozillaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did not expect that. We need this Mozgov!
Damn!!!!! That was my favorite play of the year. Delly/Moz fast break.
what about Kyrie move after all those misses?
Yeah but I’ve seen that before from Kyrie.
LOL did you guys see Mozgov high stepping after that dunk?!
I love the Delly, Kyrie Backcourt.
It’s PRIMO!! I always love seeing our original young bloods including TT (before Lebron) play on the floor together!